"Toy with" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dark figure of the music master was striding through the doorway, carrying his small son, who hugged his toy with one arm, and waved a friendly good-by with ...
— A Popular Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... anear, When things in the firelight look queer; And shadows the playroom enwrap, They never climb into my lap And toy with my head, smooth and bare, As they do with Mamma's shining hair; Nor feel round my throat and my chin For dimples to put fingers in; Nor lock my neck in a loving vise, And say they're "mousies"—that's mice— And will nibble my ears, Will nibble and bite With their little mice-teeth, so sharp and ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... both of Indian strain, have crooked eyes (a not uncommon combination), and happened to toy with the same invented name that is taken from the herds. Nothing more. . . . If I thought Blue Pete would throw himself through a window and down a bank like that ...
— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan
... toy with the new-born rill, a mere thread of water, build a Lilliputian dam, and muddle the clear outflow as it broke, and then build again. He had the thought that she had suddenly become younger, more like a child, and he ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell
... so easy,' he said. 'A child, I think, could compass it.' He put his hands behind his back and stretched his legs apart. She was very pleasant to look at with her flushings, and it amused him to toy with frightened women. 'It is in this way that you shall earn his Highness' bread.' It was known that Mary had this treasonable correspondence with the Emperor; in the devilish malignancy of her heart she desired that her sacred father should be cast ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford |
